Harry Farmer

Dr Harry Farmer BSc, MSc, FHEA, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Dr Harry Farmer has been a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Greenwich since 2021.

Harry obtained a BSc Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Bristol and then an MSc in Psychological Research from the University of Oxford before completing his PhD in Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2014.Harry worked as a Research Associate in Social Neuroscience at UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience between 2014 and 2018 and as a Research Associate in Virtual Reality at the University of Bath between 2017 and 2020. He joined the University of Greenwich in 2020.

Harry's research interests centre on the relationship self-representation at both the conceptual and bodily levels and social cognition. To study this he uses a range of methods including virtual reality, neuroimaging, computational modelling, and psychophysics. Harry currently leads the Brain and Behaviour module and is Admissions Lead for Psychology.

Posts previously held

  • Jan 2020 - Present University of Bath as Associate Researcher
  • June 2018 - Present University College London as Associate Researcher
  • Oct 2017 - Jan 2020 University of Bath as Research Associate in Virtual Reality
  • Jan 2014 - Mar 2018 University College London as Research Associate in Social Neuroscience
  • Feb 2012 - Mar 2014 Royal Holloway at University of London as Visiting Lecturer
  • 2009 - July 2010 City and Hackney Mind as Research and Special Projects Officer.